Room Collection (#95)

It is better to be lazy, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
It is better to be lazy, 1799. Plate 73 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain

Of what ill he die?, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Of what ill he die?, 1799. Plate 40 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression

Who would have thought it!, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Who would have thought it!, 1799. Plate 62 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression

Here comes the bogeyman, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
Here comes the bogeyman, 1799. Plate 3 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression

A Friendly Call, 1895. Artist: William Merritt Chase
A Friendly Call, 1895. Set in Chases elegant summer house at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, showing two fashionably dressed women

Madeline Gide, 1897. Artist: Paul Albert Laurens
Madeline Gide, 1897. Son of Jean-Paul Laurens one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style

Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist, at his desk in 1882 (1883). Huxley (1825-1895) was President of the Royal Society from 1883-1885

Apparatus for reducing dislocations, 1544. The subject is placed on a bed with a windlass at either end. Ropes are attached to the area of dislocation and force is applied by turning the windlass

Fit out Reading Rooms!, 1919. Artist: Alexander Apsit
Fit out Reading Rooms!, 1919

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1756. Artist: Jean Bernard Restout
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1756. On the Holy Familys flight into Egypt to avoid King Herods Massacre of the Innocents

The Death of Napoleon the Great, 5 May 1821, 1825. Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815

The Cholmondeley Sisters, 1600-1610. Double portrait of the sisters sitting in bed, each holding a baby. From the Tate Gallery, London

The Death of Socrates, 4th century BC, (1787). Artist: Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Socrates, 4th century BC, (1787). Socrates (469-399 BC) the Greek philosopher was found guilty of impiety and of corrupting the youth

St Martins Dream, 14th century. Artist: Simone Martini
St Martins Dream, 14th century. St Martin of Tours (c316-397), Hungarian-born soldier and saint. He gave half his coat to a beggar in Amiens on a winters night

The death of Admiral Casabianca and his son at the Battle of the Nile, 1798, (19th century)
The death of Admiral Casabianca and his son at the Battle of the Nile, Egypt, 1798, (19th century). Admiral Louis de Casabianca (c1755-1798) commanded the Orient, flagship of Napoleons fleet

Death of the Reverend Father Salvatore, a Franciscan monk, 1895. Eurocentric portrayal of historical events - scene from the Massacres of Armenia card series produced by the chocolate factory at

Portrait of Georg E. Hsen, 1913. Artist: Felix Vallotton
Portrait of Georg E. Hsen, 1913

Lady at the Piano, 1904. Artist: Felix Vallotton
Lady at the Piano, 1904

The Lecture, 1903. Artist: Theo van Rysselberghe
The Lecture, 1903. Van Rysselberghe has reconstructed one of the meetings between a number of Belgian and French artists from different disciplines held in Paris at the house of the prominent poet

The Death of the Woman of Darius, 1785. Artist: Louis Jean Francois Lagrenee
The Death of the Woman of Darius, 1785. The death of Statira, the wife of Darius III of Persia, in the captivity of Alexander the Great in 331 BC. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

The Finding of Moses, 16th century. Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto
The Finding of Moses, 16th century. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Hunter and dogs design in the green room, 1868

Design for an interior, 1868

The Annunciation, 16th century. Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Portugal

The Queens Bedchamber, The Queens Suite (Grand Appartement de la Reine), Chateau de Versailles, France. The Rococo-style woodwork

The assembly of the Sorbonne declare Henry III deposed, January 1589. Museum of Carnavalet, Paris
The assembly of the Sorbonne declare Henry III deposed, January 1589. The Parlement of Paris brought criminal charges against King Henry III of France after his involvement of the Duke of Guise in

Women of the House, 1894. Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Women of the House, or Woman Putting on her Stocking, 1894. From the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

English Tea Party with the Prince of Conti at the Temple, 1766. Artist: Michel Barthelemy Ollivier
English Tea Party with the Prince of Conti at the Temple, 1766. The young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is seated at the clavichord at the left of the picture

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, c1657. Artist: Jan Vermeer
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, c1657. From the collection of the Gemaldegalerie, Dresden, Germany

Dinner at the Hospice of Beaune, France, late 19th / early 20th century. Artist: Claude Joseph Bail
Dinner at the Hospice of Beaune, France, late 19th/early 20th century. From a private collection

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1759 (1906). Mozarts (1756-1791) first attempt, at the age of three, to play the piano. In the doorway his sister Nannerl and his father Leopold look

Scene from Mozarts opera The Marriage of Figaro, 1786 (1905). The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), comic opera (opera buffa) with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) after Beaumarchais

Charles Darwin, English naturalist, in his study, c1870 (1887). Darwin (1809-1882) lived at Down House, Beckenham, Kent for forty years

Watts First Experiment, 18th century, (c1870). Artist: Herbert Bourne
Watts First Experiment, 18th century, (c1870). James Watt (1736-1819) Scottish engineer, as a boy experimenting with the tea-kettle at the dining table of his childhood home at Greenock

Hydrotherapy treatments, c1902. Wet packs for treating the the kidney (top) and spine (middle). Bottom: sitz-bath and half-bath

John Brown, Scottish physician, 1791. Artist: John Kay
John Brown, Scottish physician, 1791. Brown (1735-1788) proposed the Brunonian system of medicine which had two classes of disease; sthenic (resulting from excess)

Glazier and wallpaper hanger working in a house, 1867. From Alphabet des Arts et Metiers. (Paris, 1867)

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, 1889
Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, [1889]. Laennec (1781-1826) is shown listening to a patients chest at the Necker Hospital, Paris

Woman using sewing machine patented by Elias Howe [c1878]
Woman using sewing machine patented by Elias Howe. [c1878]. Howe, an American inventor (1819-1867), patented the first lock-stitch sewing machine in 1846. From Adams Illustrated Panorama of History

Etienne Jules Marey (1830-1903), French physiologist, 19th century. Pioneer of cinematography. From reverse of commemorative plaquette showing Marey at his desk

Communication by speaking tube, c1850. A waiter serving clients in a restaurant, speaking to chefs at work in the kitchen on the floor below, using a speaking tube

Phrenology, 1820 (1886). Artist: Frank Dadd
Phrenology, 1820 (1886). Measuring the bumps on a boys head to assess his future. On the wall in the background is a portrait of of Franz Josef Gall (1757-1828)

Miss Nightingale and the Military in the East, c1860. Florence Nightingale in the British military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-1856). The doctor is taking a patients pulse

The Nightingales Song to to the Sick Soldier, 1854. Florence Nightingale tending a sick soldier in hospital in the Crimea

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870 to 1871

Florence Nightingale watching a nurse at work, 1854. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War

Europeans in a smallpox quarantine camp at El Tor, North Africa, 1884. Passengers from the SS Mira at a camp on the Arabian Coast

Hospital ward, Scutari, Turkey, 1856. Artist: E Walker
Hospital ward, Scutari, Turkey, 1856. Clean, light and airy ward at the Barracks Hospital in Scutari, (Uskudar), Marmara, Turkey

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